Southwold Library Online Reading Group

Join our friendly and informal online book group!

This month we are reading The Silence of the Girls by Pat Barker. Pick up a copy at the library.

This event takes place over Zoom. Join this meeting →

About The Silence of the Girls:

When her city falls to the Greeks, Briseis's old life is shattered. She is transformed from queen to captive, from free woman to slave, awarded to the god-like warrior Achilles as a prize of war. And she's not alone. On the same day, and on many others in the course of a long and bitter war, innumerable women have been wrested from their homes and flung to the fighters. The Trojan War is known as a man's story: a quarrel between men over a woman, stolen from her home and spirited across the sea. But what of the other women in this story, silenced by history? What words did they speak when alone with each other, in the laundry, at the loom, when laying out the dead?

Contact the library on 01502 722519 or email southwold.library@suffolklibraries.co.uk for more information.